World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville is ‘making the difference’ for Hyundai while its car awaits upgrades, says team boss Andrea Adamo. Hyundai now leads the WRC manufacturers’ championship by 37 points over Toyota after its one-two in Argentina last weekend, where Neuville and co-driver Nicholas Gilsoul followed up their Corsica win with a second
Month: April 2019
KTM has exercised an option to retain Tech 3 rider Miguel Oliveira for the 2020 MotoGP season. Last year’s Moto2 runner-up Oliveira has scored points twice in the opening three races of his premier class career, scoring 11th place at Termas de Rio Hondo in Argentina before finishing 14th last time out at the Circuit
Chevrolet had to overcome the odds and perhaps most importantly its own teams’ doubts to take its first win of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season at Talladega. Heading to Talladega, Chevy’s last win in a championship round had been at Kansas Speedway last October, and Jimmie Johnson’s victory in the non-points pre-season Clash race
Ayrton Senna won three Formula 1 world championships and 41 races, and while his talent was prodigious, the cars he drove played a huge part in his success. Starting with the Toleman TG184, through a pair of Lotus and a host of McLarens, Senna’s career was tragically cut short while driving the Williams FW16. Ahead
10:39 AM ET ESPN staff Valtteri Bottas reclaimed the lead of the championship in Azerbaijan as his Mercedes team defied the odds — and broke a record — by extending its run of one-two victories at the start of the 2019 season to four. 1 Related Does this mean we have a intra-team battle on
The ABB FIA Formula E Championship enjoyed another classic race in Paris as the voestalpine European races continued in France. With the rain pouring throughout the day, drama was guaranteed, and the drivers did not disappoint. Overtakes, mistakes, crashes and bashes dominated the day, and we’ve compiled the best moments for you here. Subscribe for
Toyota World Rally Championship team boss Tommi Makinen has urged his squad to tackle the “small” problems that are hampering its 2019 title bid. Ott Tanak’s Rally Sweden triumph in February is Toyota’s only win of a season so far. It had been tipped to dominate after Tanak’s run of mid-2018 wins which led to
Zandvoort is being lined up to replace Barcelona as the first non-flyaway race of the 2020 Formula 1 season, with the Spanish Grand Prix falling off the calendar, Autosport understands. In the wake of Max Verstappen’s recent success, momentum has been building for the world championship to return to the Netherlands for the first time
8:20 AM ET ESPN staff The Automobile Club d’Italia claims to have reached a commercial agreement with Formula One to keep the Italian Grand Prix at Monza until 2024. Monza’s current contract due to expire after this year’s running of the Italian Grand Prix, making the circuit one of five races up for renewal at
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Toyota’s Ott Tanak closed in on Rally Argentina leader Thierry Neuville with a pair of World Rally Championship stage wins, while Sebastien Ogier and Kris Meeke both went backwards with issues. Hyundai team-leader Neuville initially increased his lead to 13.8s but was subsequently reeled in by Tanak on the two middle stages of the loop.
The FIA has opened the tenders for standard brake systems and wheel rims in Formula 1 from 2021 as part of its ongoing push to drive down costs for teams. With F1 preparing for a new generation of cars and a wider overhaul of the sport in two years’ time, there is a desire to
1:13 PM ET BAKU, Azerbaijan — Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has confirmed Lewis Hamilton was free to attack teammate Valtteri Bottas for victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Hamilton was Bottas’ only real threat over the 51 laps of the Baku City Circuit and got alongside his teammate for the lead in the opening two
Citroen insists it still ‘trusts’ its struggling World Rally Championship driver Esapekka Lappi after his Rally Argentina crash and he has its full backing. The 2017 Rally Finland winner’s tough start to life alongside Sebastien Ogier at Citroen continued last weekend with a Friday crash that has forced his team to fly a new chassis
Alex Bowman said he would not have let Hendrick team-mate Chase Elliott win the Talladega NASCAR Cup Series race despite Chevrolet’s tactical plan. Elliott led Bowman home in a Hendrick one-two after they and JTG Daugherty Chevrolet driver Ryan Preece moved into formation at the front of the field in the final three laps. All
Kimi Raikkonen was excluded from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying result on race day, when his Alfa Romeo Formula 1 car failed a test designed to prevent excessive front-wing flexing. Raikkonen was due to start Sunday’s race eighth, but was forced to take a pitlane start as Alfa Romeo changed the specification of the front
10:18 AM ET BAKU, Azerbaijan — Another race weekend, another missed opportunity for Ferrari. This one may not have been the open goal missed in Bahrain, but on pure pace Ferrari had the potential to win in Baku and once again it came up short. A series of interwoven errors, mainly on Saturday, were to
The Citroen World Rally team has requested the FIA and Rally Argentina officials review onboard footage of the Cuchilla Nevada-Characato stage, suspecting some crews gained time by deviating from the route. Sebastien Ogier damaged the steering on his C3 WRC when he arrived at a junction that had been altered from the recce. On the
Kyle Larson says he felt like his frightening aerial accident at the end of the Talladega NASCAR Cup Series race would never stop. Larson and Jeffrey Earnhardt were hit by the spinning William Byron on the final lap of Sunday’s and sent spearing across the track. While Earnhardt impacted the wall nose-first, Larson’s car lifted
Sergio Perez says the McLaren he held off throughout the Azerbaijan Grand Prix were “a lot faster” than his Racing Point Formula 1 car. Despite pressure from Carlos Sainz Jr and Lando Norris, Perez was able to hang on and finish sixth in Baku. Perez had qualified fifth, and briefly ran ahead of Max Verstappen’s
7:30 AM ET BAKU, Azerbaijan — Lewis Hamilton said he respected a gentleman’s agreement with Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas in their fight for victory at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix out of respect for his team. Hamilton had a good getaway off the line and appeared to have the advantage going into Turn 1, going in
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Toyota’s Kris Meeke regained third place from World Rally Championship rival Sebastien Ogier on Sunday morning, recovering time lost from an overnight penalty, while Thierry Neuville is set for victory. Meeke regained a podium spot he had lost overnight from a 10 second penalty, passing Dani Sordo for fourth place after El Condor and then
Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott scored his and Chevrolet’s first win of the NASCAR Cup Series season at Talladega in a race blighted by two big accidents. As the Chevrolet runners grouped together in their green-flag pit strategy, Elliott was able to rise from 13th on the grid to take fourth in stage one, before going
Max Verstappen’s bid for third place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was reined in as a precautionary response to his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Pierre Gasly’s driveshaft failure. Gasly suffered a driveshaft failure after charging from the pitlane to sixth, and his stopped car triggered a virtual safety car just as Verstappen was mounting
7:23 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Shawn Langdon won the Funny Car title in the NGK Spark Plugs NHRA Four-Wide Nationals on Sunday to become the second driver to win in both the Top Fuel and Funny Car categories at zMAX Dragway and the 17th in NHRA history with wins in both categories.
Thierry Neuville extended his World Rally Championship lead to 10 points with victory on Rally Argentina, heading a Hyundai one-two by 48.4 seconds from Andreas Mikkelsen. Heavy rain had meant unpredictable conditions on Friday morning, which hindered Neuville as first car on the road and he ran down in ninth after SS3. But he quickly
There are many unknowns about Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Talladega, but one thing appears clear – manufacturer loyalty will supersede duty to drivers’ individual teams. Cup teams have been faced with new aero rules, including the replacement of restrictor-plates with tapered spacers, and the changes have proved challenging for both the paddock and NASCAR
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc says his muted pace late in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was not representative and did not mean the SF90 struggled on the soft tyres. After crashing in qualifying, Leclerc charged up from an initial 10th place on a fresh set of mediums in the opening stages, snatching fourth from
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